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A90052	The yeomans prerogative, or, The honour of husbandry. A sermon preached to some, and dedicated to all the yeomen and farmers of Kent. May 27. 1652. By Nathanael Newbury, master in arts, and minister of God's word at Ludenham, in the said county.	Newbury, Nathanael.	1653 (1653)	Wing N847; Thomason E684_23; ESTC R207053	22,024	36

of Nations more eivilized which are both copious and magnificent But what need I multiply the Testimonies of men to assert the honour and respect that alwaies hath been and alwaies shall be due to Husbandry Since God himself hath been pleased to publish his most sacred respects unto it as many other ways so particularly by that strict and provisionary care which he hath taken for the protection of the most inferiour pieces of it He would not allow so much as a fruit Tree to be spoyled * Deue. 20.19 When thou shalt besiege a City a long time in making war against it to take it thou shalt not destroy the Trees thereof For thou mayst eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down c. And Christ himself in that brief model of Prayer doth not obscurely intimate the respects we owe unto the Husbandman when he ranks this in the middle of those jew Peritions which he would have us to put up daylie to our heavenly Father Give us this day our daylie Bread Which unless we understand it in a mystical or miraculous sense only doth in my opinion clearly appoint us to pray daylie for the Husbandman by whom God does ordinarily dispense that staff and support of life This is every man's duty this shall be my practise as to speak well of you so to speak as well as I can for you And this also directs me how to conclude at this time Beseeching you All to accept this Sermon as the first publike Essay of my Christian respects and exalted affections towards you and beseeching the All-sufficient God to direct bless encourage and defend you in all your lawful labours and laborious imployments * 2 Cor. 9.10 Now he that ministreth seed to the Sower both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed sown and increase the fruit of your Righteousness So prays he who is indeed one of the most unworthy Labourers in the Lords Harvest But Your very real Friend and affectionate Servant Nath. Newbury A SERMON Preached to Some AND Dedicated to All the Yeomen and Farmers of KENT 2 CHRON. 26.10 For he loved HUSBANDRY THe Text is a just Apology for our Meeting at this time For if it be demanded why I preach or why you hear this day the answer is as plain as affectionate For he loved Husbandry I think I may not unfitly call this Text The Yeomans Prerogative or The Honour of Husbandry Husbandry is a word that doth equally refer to the Yeoman and the Farmer for it is the foundation support and employment of them both as they also are the fundamental support of the Nation and Country where they live Husbandry then is the subject which I intend to insist on at this time and that not in reference to the practise but to the preheminence of it As for the practise of Husbandry I must invert that of the Prophet Zechariah cap. 13. v. 5. I belong to the Schools of the Prophets I am no Husbandman nor hath any man taught me to keep Cattle from my youth It would be as impertinent for a Scholar to discourse of the exercise of Husbandry before so many well exercised Farmers as it was for Phormio that petulant Oratour to discourse the Discipline and Managery of War in the presence of Hannibal one of the most experienced Generals in the world But for the Preheminence and excellenly of Husbandry if I should not endeavour so to speak as that I may discover my own and attract the love of others to so ancient and noble a Profession I should both contradict the reality of my own affections and deface the beauty of that Royal Certificate which one of the greatest and best Kings of the world hath subscribed to in the Text For he loved Husbandry And now that I may not ill husband that time which your courteous patience doth farm out unto me the method I shall use in the Husbandry of my Sermon shall be no other then that of the Husbandman First I shall Plow up the ground of my discourse in the explication of the Text. Secondly I shall Sowe it with the spiritual seed of some seasonable Doctrinal deductions taken out of the Seed-cot of God's Word And thirdly I shall Harrow and cover the seed with some perticent Application It must be the Dew of Divine grace and the influence of Heavens blessing that must cause all to thrive and flourish and then shall that of the Prophet Zechariah ch 8. v. 12. be the joyful Harvest For the seed shall be prosperous the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew and God will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things Give me leave then first To bring in my plow to lay open the ground of my subsequent discourse And here indeed I meet with a ground that is so mellow and tender the terms of the Text so easie and obvious that I shall not need to draw a deep Furrow A shallow reach and a weak strength answerable to my stock and abilities will be sufficient to turn up the bottome of the sense of these words For This word gives us an account of those undertakings which we read of in the precedent part of the verse It is a term of causality and it is placed here but to open the gate for us into the field The field is well scituated well feaced well stock'd as you may easily perceive if you please but to survey the fore-going words He built Towers He kept good Fences He digged Wells or cut out many Cisterns or Ponds for the watering of his cattel Indeed the meanest Husbandman whether Farmer or Grasier knows as well as the highest Poet * Pindar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the advantageous necessitity of Water and therefore if his grounds be naturally dry and parsimonious he spares no cost nor pains to draw it out by sinking ponds and wells for he had much Cattel He was well stock'd both in the low Country and in the Plains they are places convenient and fit for pasturage Husbandmen also in the fruitful fields or Carmel there 's his discreet care to dispose his grounds and servants according to their most proper capacity Non omnis fert omnia tellus He employs therefore his Vine-dressers in the mountains places most open to the beams of the sun and his Husbandmen in Carmel or the fruitful fields places most fit for and propitious to corn these you all know are main pieces of good husbandry The most obstinate labour in plowing sowing weeding c. is but in vain if the ground be not fit and kindly the fences well kept and the stock proportionable Our compleat Husbandman according to the greatness of his ability both for wisdom and wealth did abundantly provide for all these necessary adjuncts He built c. And why all this For he loved Husbandry He What was He No less then a King Uzziah a Prince famous for Piety

Sam. 11.5 And Saul came after armentum suum his own herd out of the field David and Uzziah were mentioned before And if we look out of the sacred into other Histories they abound in illustrious examples to this purpose Cyrus the Persian Dioclesian Justin and other Roman Emperors Hiero Philo metor Attalus Archelaus and many Grecian Kings were Husbandmen the Noblest families in the Roman Common-wealth were founded upon Husbandry as appears by their Titles and names Hence the Fabij Lentuli Pisones Cicerones Vitellij Porrij Servij Appij and others to which very many Gentilitious names among us are parallel as Bean Lentil Peas Chickly Yokely Swinford Plonden Wheatly c. The most excellent Chieftains of the world have been taken from the Fold or the Stall or the Plough Moses a Shepherd Exodus 3.1 Gideon a Thresher Judges 6.11 Val. Maximus and Dionisius Halicar speak of Attalus Quintus Curius and others who were fetched from the Plough to the Consulship yea Dictatorship in some eminent difficulty of affairs and distress of their country and that after they had faithfully magnanimously and fortunately discharged those great offices they cheerfully returned to their Husbandry business What shall I say more Elisha that great Prophet was at first but a rich Ploughman 1 Kin. 19.19 Two of the Apostles Janies and Jude were Husbandmen as Clem. lib. 2. Constit Apost cap. 63. has recorded it And therefore they do so frequently in their Epistles make use of comparisons drawn from their own calling as of trees plants fruits of the earth c. Yea Christ himself seems to have been much delighted with such similitudes He compares himself to a Seedsman Luke 8.5 And the Father accepts the appellation of an Husbandman Iohn 15.1 Nor refuses he the practise of Husbandry verse 2. How doth not all this conduce much to the honour and dignity of Husbandry That it is a calling of immediately Divine Institution a calling that hath been used by the best and Noblest of men in all ages a calling that hath given a name and imployment to God himself who can chuse but honour and love such a calling and that 's it I am next to speak to Thirdly The affection of our Husbandman to his complacency and delight in his calling He loved Husbandry is a calling that deserves the dearest love and most affectionate respects of all men both of those who imployed and exercised in it and of all others First It deserves the love and requires the delight of all such as practise it and that among others for these 4. reasons 1. For it laboriousness and difficulty It is no easie no slight no lazy employment We ordinarily observe that the Husbandmans business is never at an end and that he hath but two sleeping nights in the whole yeer Undoubtedly he labours under the influence of that Divine Edict Gen. 3.19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground even unto that ground over which thou hast taken so many weary turns All his life he finds that to be a practical truth Eccles 1.8 All things are full of labour man cannot utter it Now it is love to it and delight in it that can sweeten his labour shorten his way alienate and ease the weight and burthen of his employments 2. For its emolument and profitableness This compensates his labour How many substantial Families do originally owe their inheritances to husbandry It is said of Issachar Gen. 49.14.15 Issachar as a strong Ass couching down between two burdens and he saw her Rest was good and the land was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and become a servant unto Tribute Upon which place I like not Junius his note Licet robustissimus sit nihil praeclari geret sed d●●● desideus ignavit●r s● ● tributa ir dici patietur That through sloth he would not perform any honourable and hazardous attempt but would rather slavishly submit to be a Tributary This note I say I conceive to be impertinent because that prediction of his Father was delivered as his blessing not his disgrace and it appears that he was not of such a servile nature but that he could do valiantly when just occasion was offered for he willingly came in to help Barack in that dangerous battel against Sisera Judg. 5.15 And therefore I approve the observation of our learned and ingenious Countryman * Th. Fuller in his Pi●gah sight of Palestine Book 2. cap. 7. That Issachar is resembled to an Ass not for the stupidity of his head but for the strength of his back and it seems he had wisdom as well as strength for this Tribe is taken notice of for an excellent piece of skill and discretion 1 Chr. 12.32 The children of Issachar were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do They were not only weatherwise as Rivet would have it but good Chronologers yea discreet Statesmen able by observation of former to make out directions for future times However this Tribe afforded the best Yeomandry in Israel and advanced most towards rates and assessments The two burthens forementioned were Taxes and Tillage which they sensible of the goodness of their soyl and the profits that came in by their Country employments and peacefull labours did willingly and wisely submit unto And surely it is a piece of insolent indiscretion for any man to repine at the payment of a shilling to save a pound especially when he hath his life and livelyhood his peace and quiet attendance upon his calling secured to him into the bargain Issachar though compared to an ass had more wit for upon observation of the advantages that redounded to him by a quiet attendance upon his husbandry business he bowed his shoulder to beare and cheerfully became a servant to tribute 3. For its Salubrity and healthfulness no imployment conduces more to the health and vigour of the body than Husbandry It is too true indeed and to be bewail'd that the customary luxury of Towns and Cities hath tainted too many of the Country and so drawn them to partake of their diseases as they do of their dissoluteness but for such as are abstemious and keep themselves generally to their Country diet such as are resident upon and diligent in their Country employments how many have there been that have outlived whole Towns and Cities Our northern Countryman old Parr may be one instance Undoubtedly those people who are farthest removed from the fortness and luxury of Courts and Cities and in a manner obliged to hard labor and homely fare are seldom acquainted with those high and mighty diseases of the Gout Stone c. but have the hardness of their labour and the shortness of their diet plentifully recompenc'd with the length healthfulness and salubrity of their lives 4. For its tranquility and peacefulness How have not many who were tyred and wearyed with the brawls and strifes the deceipts and cozenages of